What’s Tapping (7/6/23)

Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County, including links where you can find additional info or purchase the beers online. For more details regarding release/tapping dates, times and locations, consult the official website or social-media accounts of the brewing companies listed.

And keep scrolling for Bottlecraft staffers’ recommendations about beers they are excited about that can be found at their bottle shop locations in North Park, Little Italy, Point Loma and Oceanside!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Mango Tepache Wheat Ale w/ Mango, Pineapple & Cinnamon, 5.3% – BUY ONLINE
• Attitude Brewing (Barrio Logan): Optimistic West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Shadow of Yesterday’s Triumph Wee Heavy, 7.4%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Schwarzwald Dunkelweizen
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Tyrael’s Wrath Hazy IPA, 6.3%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): Super SMASH IPA, 6%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Death By Blueberry Wheat Ale w/ Blueberry, 5.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Jim Beaver’s Misadventures West Coast IPA, 5.6%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Kiwi Hop Expedition New Zealand-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Misty Mountain Double IPA, 8.3%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Tropical Terps IPA w/ Terpenes, 6.6% – BUY ONLINE
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Black Currant Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Neon Horizon Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Tidal Change IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ MadeWest Brewing)
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Chiller Light American Light Lager, 4.2%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Not-So-Austere Abbott Belgian-style Blonde Ale, 6.5%

• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Adventure Seeker West Coast Double IPA, 8%
• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): Tora! Japanese-style Lager, 5.2%
• Guadalupe Brewery (Vista): Hook’d IPA, 7.1%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Concepts & Constructs Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Boneyard Beer)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Manu Bay Nelson IPA, 7%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Active Session IPA, 4.4%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Foam Ranger Double IPA, 9.2%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hippy Hoppy Hazy IPA (Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Scottish Amber Ale, 6%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Evil (Grimace) Milkshake Fruited Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Flying High West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Hasselhef Hefeweizen, 5.5%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): Red Rover American Amber Ale, 5.4%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Electric Park Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.5% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): NP Pils Bavarian-style Pilsner, 4.6%- BUY ONLINE

• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Dawn of Jan Czech-style Pilsner, 5.5%
• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Golden Horizons West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Blue Skies Forever Bourbon Barrel-aged Belgian-style Blonde Ale w/ Blueberry, 7.4%
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Apollyon Belgian-style Tripel, 9.3%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Electric Seagull West Coast IPA, 7%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Roes Red Barrel-aged Flanders-style Red Ale w/ Black Currant & Fig, 7.9% – BUY ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Take It Slow Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Cacao & Vanilla, 13.9% – BUY ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Boomer Beach San Diego Pale Ale, 6%
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Ocean Beach Hazy IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Pizza Port Ocean Beach)
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Farmers Market American Wheat Ale w/ Raspberry, Blueberry, Orange & Lemon, 6%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Domino Theory Double Dry-hopped Hazy Pale Ale, 6.2%
• Three Frogs Beer Co. (Santee): Frog Nectar Hazy IPA, 6%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): 15th Street Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Cerveza Mexican-style Lager, 4.5%
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Tiki Punch Imperial Cocktail Sour Ale, 8.5%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

All three of the beers profiled in this week’s column will be available at Bottlecraft’s North Park, Little Italy and Oceanside locations as components of a flight this upcoming Saturday, July 8. This is part and parcel of our recurring Sour Saturday series we have been running all summer long. This month’s theme is American wild ales!

Jester King Petit Prince | Brett Table Beer (2.9%): Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s masterpiece The Little Prince is adored the world over as a children’s book, albeit one tinged with melancholia. Depicting allegorical themes of planetary destruction, lost love and the transitory nature of the human condition, with iconic watercolor illustrations to match, it is a book with great meaning to generations of grown-ups who have not forgotten the arbitrary confusion of childhood. With their usual sumptuous artwork, Jester King Brewery’s recurring Petit Prince pays explicit homage to the story; a dry, prickly lunchtime beer that’s both elegant and refined. Now in 16-ounce cans and, at the time of this writing, on draft at Bottlecraft North Park!

Cascade Tropical Grasslands | Barrel-aged Gose (4.7%): Despite the plethora of breweries that have populated the Pacific Northwest in recent years, Cascade Brewery still stands front and center for barrel-aged sour ales. Notable for their lack of kettle sours and extensive use of northwest Oregon’s local agricultural bounty (longtime drinkers will recall the cornucopia that proudly emblazoned their old labels), Cascade is still a must-visit for acid-head travelers to Portland. Tropical Grasslands takes the traditional salted funk of a Gose and adds orange and lemongrass for a citric tinge.

The Rare Barrel Nowhere To Go | White Peach Sour Ale (7.9%): Long ago, brewers and drinkers ascertained that acidity in beer can be tempered by the addition of fruits high in natural sugars. Stone fruit in all forms provide an ideal foil for sharpness or astringency, or otherwise understandable low pH. Nowhere To Go leans hard into this line of thinking, with almost two tuns of Summer Sweet peaches going into this 2021 vintage. Stay put and enjoy!

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